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Although they will play to 1.5 million fans during their three-month tour of the Americas, Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones are only tourists in some places. After two performances at the San Antonio Convention Center, the British rock megastars decided to pose for pictures at a famous Texas landmark. As they gathered together near a wooden door, it suddenly opened and a woman in her 60s emerged. "Would you mind not leaning against the door?" she snapped. "You're blocking our way to the Alamo." Jagger & Co. stepped aside and regrouped for their photo, then headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 23, 1975 | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...modeling gigs ($100 an hour). By the time her 20th birthday came round in February, Margaux had posed for a Vogue cover, was starring at celebrity-jammed parties, and had announced her engagement to Boy Friend Errol Wetson. On the pop scales, Margaux was beginning to outrank even Mick Jagger. Clearly, something big was about to happen to Margaux. Sure enough, in the middle of May, just 249 days after her arrival in Manhattan, she landed the biggest advertising contract ever given to a woman: $1 million from Fabergé to promote a new, unnamed scent. Said Margaux simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 16, 1975 | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Including Bach and the Beatles, Monteverdi and Mick Jagger, Parsons' encyclopedia lists 10,250 classical themes and 3,900 popular songs according to title and author. It is not necessary to know how to read music to use Parsons' book. The key to the system is that almost all themes can be differentiated by the relationship of the notes to each other-whether a note repeats (R) its predecessor, or goes up (U), or down (D). The first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Name That Tune | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...concerts, though, as people were allowed to buy four tickets each and a lot of scalping is bound to go on--at decadent prices. They'll be in N.Y. and L.A. five days each, too. Ron Wood of the Faces is temporarily standing in for the departed Mick Taylor on the tour...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Rock | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

...would be wrong to fault only the Stones themselves for this album's disappointments. One of Mick Jagger's greatest talents has always been his unflinching sense of his audience's needs and rhythms. Nowadays I suspect that what he senses is making him increasingly cynical...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Soul for the Soulless | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

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